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Contemporary thought is marked by heated debates about the
character, purpose and form of religious thinking and its relation
to a range of ideals: spiritual, moral, aesthetic, political and
ecological, to name the obvious. This book addresses the
interrelation between theological thinking and the complex and
diverse realms of human ideals. What are the ideals appropriate to
our moment in human history, and how do these ideals derive from or
relate to theological reflection in our time? In Theological
Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals internationally renowned
scholars from a range of disciplines (physics, art, literary
studies, ethics, comparative religion, history of ideas, and
theology) engage with these crucial questions with the intention of
articulating a new and historically appropriate vision of
theological reflection and the pursuit of ideals for our global
times.
In 1879, the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass
Book - a guide to the Mass -- was edited for the Early English Text
Society by Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons. It remains the standard
edition of what, to modern tastes, can seem a simple work of
conventional Middle English devotion. Yet, as this book shows, the
poem had a remarkable afterlife. The authors demonstrate how
Simmons' interest in and presentation of the text was related
profoundly to contemporary concerns and heated debates about
worship in the Church of England, at a time when Anglican clergymen
could be imprisoned for their ritual practices. Simmons, educated
at Oxford during the height of the Oxford Movement, was recognised
by contemporaries as a leading authority on liturgy, a topic that
troubled prime ministers as well as archbishops, and the authors
bring out the ways in which Simmons himself used his medievalist
researches as the basis for what was to be the most important
attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the
twentieth century.
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of
the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected
through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing
together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides
a representative cross-section of influential trends in the
philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought,
Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our
understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as
site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence,
subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection
and eternal life.
Examining the roots of the relationship between literature and
theology, this book offers the first serious attempt to probe the
deep theological purposes of the study of literature. Through an
exploration of themes of evil, forgiveness, sacrament and what it
means to be human, David Jasper draws from international research
and discussions on literature and theology and employs an
historical and profoundly personal journey through the later part
of the last century up to the present time. Combining fields such
as bible and literature, poetry and sacrament, this book sheds new
light on how Christian theology seeks to remain articulate in our
global, secular and multi-faith culture.
For some, the Bible and literature are at odds. The Bible, it is
argued, is not properly literature but a piece of outmoded fiction
that ought not to be studied or taken seriously. However, the
relationship and impact between the Bible and, in turn, proceeding
literature cannot be overlooked. The Bible is an ever-fruitful
source for creativity that has contributed to all the great
achievements of Western thought, writing, and artistry for the last
two millennia.With Scripture and Literature, David Jasper has
compiled forty years of his writings on the relationship between
the Bible, literature, and art. These writings are
interdisciplinary in nature and are not the work of a specialist in
biblical scholarship. Rather, while acknowledging the Bible as a
sacred text in more than one religious tradition, they recognize
the Bible as literature in conversations with other literary works
and traditions as well as the visual arts. During the forty years
which these essays span, enormous changes have taken place in
our world. Postmodernism has come and gone; issues in feminism and
gender are now acutely, and properly, with us; and the world has
become much more of a global village, despite its many divisions.
On the other hand, and at the same time, it is remarkable how
little has changed, and the reader will find that some older pieces
remain relevant and necessary today. Parts of the book deal broadly
with questions of translation, rhetoric, war, and evil, while
others focus on specific writers and artists from J. M. W. Turner
to the English novelist Jim Crace. Yet behind Scripture and
Literature lies a lifetime of careful thought and teaching of the
Bible and literature. In the end, Jasper synthesizes his work,
offering some reflections on pedagogy and the changes that have
occurred since the 1980s up to the present day.
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of
the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected
through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing
together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides
a representative cross-section of influential trends in the
philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought,
Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our
understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as
site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence,
subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection
and eternal life.
Contemporary thought is marked by heated debates about the
character, purpose and form of religious thinking and its relation
to a range of ideals: spiritual, moral, aesthetic, political and
ecological, to name the obvious. This book addresses the
interrelation between theological thinking and the complex and
diverse realms of human ideals. What are the ideals appropriate to
our moment in human history, and how do these ideals derive from or
relate to theological reflection in our time? In Theological
Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals internationally renowned
scholars from a range of disciplines (physics, art, literary
studies, ethics, comparative religion, history of ideas, and
theology) engage with these crucial questions with the intention of
articulating a new and historically appropriate vision of
theological reflection and the pursuit of ideals for our global
times.
Examining the roots of the relationship between literature and
theology, this book offers the first serious attempt to probe the
deep theological purposes of the study of literature. Through an
exploration of themes of evil, forgiveness, sacrament and what it
means to be human, David Jasper draws from international research
and discussions on literature and theology and employs an
historical and profoundly personal journey through the later part
of the last century up to the present time. Combining fields such
as bible and literature, poetry and sacrament, this book sheds new
light on how Christian theology seeks to remain articulate in our
global, secular and multi-faith culture.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and
prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote
some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of
non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European
cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the
self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to
the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her
generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common
reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony
Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional
portraits by way of retaliation. The scholarly interest that her
work now receives is hampered by difficulty in accessing the full
range of her oeuvre: whilst her most famous fictional series, 'The
Chronicles of Carlingford', together with a handful of her tales of
the supernatural, have gone in and out of print in recent years,
the bulk of her fiction and critical writing remains uncollected.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken.
This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist
Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship has shaped
modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality
and, more recently, the economics of sustainability.
This volume is the fourth instalment of the 'Report on the state of
the European Union' series. Its shows that if the EU does not want
to be ruled by crisis any longer, it must invest in sustainability,
political, economic, social and environmental. Europe must turn
this elusive and ever-threatening 'crisis' into a chosen and
meaningful transition.
This volume is the fourth instalment of the 'Report on the state of
the European Union' series. Its shows that if the EU does not want
to be ruled by crisis any longer, it must invest in sustainability,
political, economic, social and environmental. Europe must turn
this elusive and ever-threatening 'crisis' into a chosen and
meaningful transition.
This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist
Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship has shaped
modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality
and, more recently, the economics of sustainability.
Continuing the work began in "The Sacred Desert," David Jasper here
turns his attention to the body, seeking a profound understanding
of what it means to be in the flesh. A deeply autobiographical
journey through disparate written texts (in literature, philosophy,
theology and religion), art, and cinema, "The Sacred Body"
rigorously and artfully pursues the body of the Christian tradition
of "the Word made flesh"--a body torn and crucified, resurrected,
and divinized, embracing both deep suffering and profound joy.
Engaging ascetic traditions that began among fourth-century desert
monastics, as well as George Herbert, Simone Weil, Meister Eckhart,
James Joyce and others, David Jasper once again provides a bold,
learned, and original theological exploration.
The introduction to a series of interdisciplinary titles, both
monographs and essays, concerned with matters of literature, art
and textuality within religious traditions founded upon texts and
textual study.
This study provides one indication that as aesthetics begins to be
reconcieved, which is starting to happen on many fronts, it can
play a more significant role both in philosophy and in religious
reflection.
This exploration of the relationship between literature and
religion adopts a series of different strategies and perspectives,
aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which
literature, literary theory and theology are related. The doctrine
of the Resurrection, morality and ethics, aesthetics, hermeneutics
and issues of intentionality and referentiality are all discussed
in the belief that, in literature, we glimpse at times the
fulfilment of our nature, cast in the imaginative genius of great
art and continuing to persuade us of the value and ultimate truth
of the theological enterprise.
Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages
with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five
poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and
times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the
presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes
almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or
despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the
traditions of Anglicanism through the centuries, reflecting both a
common humanity and a wide breadth of human experience as it
struggles with God. Heaven in Ordinary is deliberately
autobiographical in approach, as it is grounded in David Jasper's
own lifetime experience of reading poetry since his school years,
and over four decades as a priest. The poets he so beautifully
discusses have related both positively and negatively to the
Christian faith and the Anglican tradition. Some are deeply
religious, others are haunted by God and the divine mystery.
Western literature, from the mysterious figure of Marco Polo to the
deliberate fictions of Daniel Defoe and Mark Twain, has constructed
portraits of China born of dreamy parody or sheer prejudice. The
West's attempt to understand China has proven as difficult as
China's attempt to understand the West. A Poetics of Translation is
the result of academic conversations between scholars in China and
the West relating to issues in translation. "Translation" here is
meant not only as the linguistic challenges of translating from
Chinese into English or English into Chinese, but also as the wider
questions of cultural translation at a time when China is in a
period of rapid change. The volume illustrates the need for
scholars, both eastern and western, to learn very quickly to live
within the exchange of ideas, often with few precedents to guide or
advise. This book also reflects the final impossibility of the task
of translation, which is always, at best, approximate. By examining
texts from the Bible to poetry and from historical treatises to
Shakespeare, this volume carefully interrogatesâand ultimately
broadensâtranslation by exposing the multiple ways in which
linguistic, cultural, religious, historical, and philosophical
meaning are formed through cross-cultural interaction. Readers
invested in the complexities of translation betwixt China and the
West will find this volume full of intriguing studies and attentive
readings that encompass the myriad issues surrounding East-West
translation with rigor and imagination.
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